Yoshikien Garden

吉城園

Moss, pond and tea gardens in one, free to enter

Hours

9am–5pm (last entry 4:30pm); closed 24 Feb to end of February

Tickets

Free (per Rurubu listing; may change, check on site)

Address

60-1 Noborioji-cho, Nara

Separated from Isuien by a small stream, this garden sits on the site of a former Kofuku-ji sub-temple. It comes in three parts: a pond garden, a moss garden carpeted in sugi-goke, and a small garden in front of the tea house. When light filters through the trees in the moss garden, the green almost glows. It's free and still uncrowded, so many people do it together with Isuien.